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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND i'O THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY. VOL Y ~" PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1876. ~ NO. 21, Speech of the Hon- D. H Hill. Wo oxtract from Mr. Hill's oioquont upeoch in Congross, in reply to Mb. Blaino, liiu grand peroration, llad wo room wo would hko lo givo raoro Of ftUis magnificent address of JNtr. lift I: / t "THE 80UTII 18 IIEUB AND IIEllK SITE INTENDS TO REMAIN." I do not doubt that I am tho boaror of unwolcomo messages lo tho gen* tloman from Maino and bis party.? llo says that thoro aro Confederates in this body, and that they are going to cotnbino with a few from tho North for tho purposo of controlling this government. If ono woro to listen to tho gentlemen on tho other sido, ho would bo in doubt whothor they rejoiced moro whon the South loft tho Union, or rogrottod most whon tho youth camo back to tho Union that ? their fatbora holpod to form, and to Which thoy will forovor horoafter contribute as much of patriotic ardor, of robfo devotion, and of willing sacrifice as tho constituents of tho gentloman from Maine. Oh, Mr. Speaker, why cannot gentlemen on tho other side riso to tho height of this groat argumont of patriotism? Is the bosom of tho country always to ho torn with this misorablo sectional dobato # whenever n presidential election is ponding? To that groat <lohato of half a contury beforo secession thoro were loft no adjourned questions.? Tho victory of the North was absolute, and God knows tho submission of tho South was complete. But, sir, wo have recovered from tho humiliation of defoat, and wo como hero a mong you and ask you to givo u* tho greetings accorded to broihois by " brothers. Wo proposo to join you in every patriotic aspiration that looks to the benefit, tho advancement, and tho honor of every part of our common country. Lot us, gentlemen, of all parties, in this Centennial year ins * l ? ?i-? vir_ ULUU IIUVU it JUUIIUU U1 1 1 I'UUU 111 . It U divide with you tho glories of the Ixov volulion ntul of tho succeoding yoars of our national lifo boforo that un^ happy division, that four years' night of gloom und despair?and so wo shall divido with you tho glories ol all the future. Sir, riy mossago is this: Thero aro no Conjcdorates in this House; there <1 i?a n/t Onr\ nun i aa n aiuii i Ik.ka aiu IIV vviiivuv/i iULD iu?j n iiiuiu aro no Coniodarato schemes, ambitions hopes, desires or purposes horo. JJut tlie South is hero, and horo she intends v to romain. [Enthusiastic applauso.] Go on and pass your qualifying acts, trample upon tho constitution you iiavo sworn to support, abnegato tho pledges of your fnthors, incito rago upon our peoplo, and multiply your infidolitics until tliey shall bo liko the stars of lioavcn or tbo Hands of tbo soasboro, without numbor; but know this, for all your iniquities tbo South will novor again seek a romody in tbo madness of another secession. [Continued applauso.] Wo aro hero; wo aro in tbo bouso of our fathors, our biotbors aro our companions, and wo s aro at homo to stay, thank God.? [Much applauso.J Wo como to gratify no rovongos, to rotaliato no wrongs, to resent no past insults, to re-opon no strife. Wo como with a patriotic purposo to do whatevor in our political powor shall lio to roetoro an honest, economical) ana constitutional administration of tbo Govornmont. Wo como charging upon .tho Union no wrongs to us.? Tho Union novcr wrongod us. 'J ho Union has boon an uninixo<' blessing f to ovory soction, to evory .jtato, to ^ ovory man of ovory color in Amorioa. Wo chargo all our wrongs upon that "highor law" fanaticism, that novor kop.t a piodgo nor oboyod a law. Tlio South did Book to loavo tho association oi thoso who, hho bolioved, would not kocp fldolity to thoir oovonantBj I ho Sputh sought to go to hoi'golf; but, ho far from having lont our fidelity for th'e Constitution which our fathors ^ in a Jo, when wo sought to go wo l?ug~ g'cd that Constitution to our bosoms and carricd it with us. Jlravo Union men of the North, followers ol Webster and Fillmore, of i Clay and Cass, and Douglas?yon fought lor tno Union for tho sako of Iho Union; you who coascd to fight when tho battlo ondod and tho sword was shontliod?wo haro no# quarrel with you, whothor Republicans 01% Domocrats. Wo felt your heavy arm in tho carnago of battle; but above the roar of tho cannon wo heard your voico of kindnoss, calling, "Brothers, como back!" And wo bear witness to you this day that voico of kindness did moro to thin tho Conf'odorato ranks find Wflflknil t.bn ( i?nfrwlr?vn f n ni'm iUnn did nil tho nrtillory employed in tho strugglo. Wo nro hero to co-oporato with you; to do whatover wo can, in spito ot all our sorrows, to rebuild tho Union; to restoro pcaco; to boa blessing to tho country, and to inako tho jinierican union wnat our latnors in tondod it to bo: tho glory of Amorica and a blossing to humanity'. But to you, gontlomon, who seek still to continuo strife, and who, not satisfied with tho sufferings already ended, tho blood already shed, tho wasto already committed, insist that wo shall bo troated as criminals and oppressed as victims, only bccauso wo< defended our convictions?to you wo mako no concessions. To you who followed up tho war after tho bravo soldiors that fought it had mado peaco and gono to their homos?to you wo havo no concessions to ojfor. Martyrs owo no apologies to tyrants. And whilo wo are ready to mnko every saenfieo for tho Union, even secession, however defeated and Iminblcd, will confess no sin to fanaticism, howovcr bigoted and oxacting. Yet, while v,'o make to you no eons cession, wo como even to you in no spirit of revengo. Wo would multiply blessings in common for you and for us. Wo lmvo ono ambition, and that is to add our political power to tho patriotic Union men of tho North in order to compel fanaticism to obey tho I !nw and live in tho Union according to tho Constitution. Wc do not pl'Or. poso to compol 3rou by oaths, for you who brood strife only to got oflico and powor will not keep oaths. Sir, wo did tho Union ono great wrong. Tho Union never wronged tho South; but wo ol tho South did to tho Union 0110 great wrong; and wo como, ns far as wo enn, to repair it.? Wo wronged tho Union griovously ivl\nn tun Inff if ta I\a oai'va/1 ?? ..V.J I? w ?wtw * w nv Ktvj outtil/U tlliu 1 Ullt and torn by tho men who had denounced it as "a covonant with hell and a leaguo with tho dovil." Wo ask you, gentlemen of tho Eopublicnn party, to rieo abovo all your nnimosi tiop. Forget your own sine. hct us unite to repair tho ovils that distract and oppross the country. Lot us turn our backs upon tho past, and lot it ho said in tho future that ho shnll bo tho greatest patriot, tho truest patriot, tho noblest patriot who shall do most to repair tho wrongs of tho past and promote tho glories of tho futuro.? [Applauso on tho iloor and in thogallerios.] i? ? A Corpse in a Bale of Cotton.? On Saturday last, says tho Columbia Hcgistor, tho hands on Mr, J. Jonos' plantation, botwoon Winnsboro and Chostor, \fcro ongagod in packing cotton, wlion thoy woro called on to di'ivo cows from an adjoining fiold.? Thoy woro absont Homo iiftoon or twonty minutes. On thoir roturn to tlio proas they callod tor ono of thoir comrades who had boon assisting in packing, but could not find him. As ho had boon drinkiug, tho supposition was that ho had gone off Homo whoro to sloop, and tho packing continued without him. Aftor a halo had boon prossod ami turned out, ono of I ho hands caught hold of a coat tail protrading from tho halo, and inquirod whoso coal? It was idontilied as tho garmont of tho missing man. On investigation, tlio body of tho man won uiscovereu in too imio oi cotton crushed to a Jolly. Tho belief in that ho got inlo tho box when tho other hands wont aftor tho cowb, and wont to sloop, and that subsequently cotton was thrown in tho box and packed, | with tho rosult reported. The Voice of Georgetown a Tlio Georgetown Comet pays: A meeting of tlio citizens of this county was held on Monday Inst to endorse Govornor Chamberlain in tho pntri? one and noblo stand he lia3 taken in refusing to commission Whippcr and Moses as Judges of tlio first and third circuits. 'J ho Conrthouso was well filiod with tho best at d most rcspcctablo citizens of tho county, 1.1 l ? * - ouin coiorca ana white,wlioso connto nances indicated what they subsequently expressed?their firm and eolid purpose to stand by Govornor Chamberlain, lot conic what will. Mr. Richard Dozior was called to tho chair, and in few but very emphatic words, explained the object of 1 tho meeting. IFn Kniii thnt Onvmi'imi* O ' ~~ " ' w . v/. ..N'l Chamberlain bad thrown himself into tho breach and stood squarely up against corruption and ignorance, and that ho bad, in his refusal to sign tho commission of Whippcr and Mosce, exhibited that high 'moral coursc which had bo distinguished 'his acts as tiio chief magistrate of South Carolina, in upholding the right, and denouncing tho wrong, and that he deserved tiio moral sup* port of every right thinking and honest citizen of South Carolina. Col. Ben. 11. Wilson then read the preiunblo and resolutions declaring \Tr.or.j o%wi wi,; 1 - J.U.VOVO ClilV4 If VUlUllj UUll'liJH j ami ignorant. To provo tho corrupv tions ot Whippcr, lie road tin extract from Attorney General .Melton's ro< port, w^ich Whipper was proven to be a defalter to the State in the sum ot twelve thousand dullars. This was enough, according t) his understanding of the law, to put Whipper iu the Penitentiary. Uut instead he was rewarded lor his rascality by being put-upon tho bunch. In sup port of iho clmrgo of ignorance, Cel. Wilson read tl.o following unique order, taken out by Whippor before Judge Grecii at the June term of the court for this county, in 1 SOU: iiio btato ol South j Inditemont for Carolina, vs [ Larceny. The greanil jury haveing been dis~ charged and no bill giveing out in the abovo stated caso on motion of W.J. YVhipper Attoreoy for defendont it io ordered that tho del'ondcnt bo dief'.linrnrml frnm niiotAiK. witliAnt /lo?> June 24th 18G9 (signed) John T. Gukun. When this specimen ol Mr. Whipper'a ortbograpliy was read, some ominous grunts cscnped several colored men, who had listened intently 10 ns denunciation. As to ilio corruptness of F. J. Mases, Jr., ho eaid it was too noto% riona to admit of argument or dor.bt, every body was familiar with his career and knew liitn to bo guilty of almost overy crime in the decalogue* CJ After animadverting on tho evil con6cquenco8 that were sin e to allow corruption and ignorance, especially in tho judiciary, tlio Colonel closed hie retriarke by lauding tlio act of (iov. Chamberlain which had in all orobabilitv averted an evil I hut. <jtli? erwise would luivo fallen crtishingly upon the people of the Statu. Dr. Alex. M. Foster succeeded Col. Wilson, and spoko with earnest* nees and in terms of highest praise of Governor Chamberlain, whom he svisliod LJod-speed in tlio courao lio wab pursuing, and expressed tin: liopo that lio might ^ot aitain to tlio honors ot tlio Wliito House. His closing worda woro, that Governor Chamberlain was entitled to moral, and if necessary tlio material sup-. i/.i'f /">f nonvu I'vi rj V *. V ? vi j ^ /W? Ui VI Mj\J 11 VI I I | U State. Air. R. I. Midiiloton next spuko, ami said Unit tlieobjeet ut tho meet, ing was too clew to require demon strati vo argument, and that, evury | man who was not corrupt himself would ondorao (> >voruor (Jhainbor- ; lain in hia earnest and juaisowoithv . oll'ortti to bring ab ui govomuici tul I reform. lie said color nor nice had nothing to do with tho mutter; the question was tho fitness or unfitness of Moses and Whipper to sit upon llio bench, ami t' at no honest man, colored or white, who was acquainted with tho issue would or couid do othcrwiso than ondorso the action of Governor Chamberlain in this matter. Parson Mosoll, colored, touchcd upon the letral asncet of tho ea^o. find I liko Air. Calhoun, thought any chi li of the separate brandies of tho State Government should bo deprecatcd, they should bo kopt separate and distinct. ILo believed in n. vmrn in* I? - ,1 diciary, howovor, and thought that the host way to havo good jrovcrnmont was to havo honest and compotent men to administer its affairs. This closed tlio speaking, and tho motion to adopt the resolutions was seconded by Alonzo Jackson, colored. Tl,? . l i- < invj I'lvuiiiuiu {iiiu ruyuiulions WCl'O then put and adopted unanimously, us follows: Whereas, llio General Assembly of South G;?.rolina have, in violation ol the constitution, assumed to elect as Judges W. J. Whippet* and Jb\ J. Muses, Jr., two of the most notoriously venal ami corrupt men that ever disgraced tho Stato ?>y their presence; and, whereas, Governor Chamberlain has refused to issue commissions to them as judges; there l'ore he it liegolvod, That we cordially endorse the action of the Governor in j refusing to issue commissionfi a^ | Judges to W.J. Whipperand F. J. Moses, and plodgo to him (lie full support of this community in his efforts to Koouro to tlio people ot the State a faithful admiuia'raiion of the law. Resolved, That wo tender to Gov. Chamberlain our grateful thanks for tho bold ami statcsmanliko struggle lie has inado in tho causo of reform, in tho economical administration of tho goverunont, in tho preservation of tho public faith, in tho equal administration ot justice, ami i:i the maintenance of tho public peaco, ana we pieuge nun our cordial support for lho accomplishment of tho6o undd. Uj)on motion of Dr. A. if. For Jtor it was unanimously resolved that a copy of the saino be transmitted to T-ioir niiniitlini'loin ' The meeting way a quiet and orderly one, and evinced what is now the popular sentiment ot tho people of South Carotina, the determination to stand by tho Governor and eup port him linnly in his every effort, to strike down corruption, and to lift tho skirts of Carolina from tho filth and miro of con uj)tion ami degradation. ? c <ftv ^ An Irishman, on arriving in lliis country, took :i fancy to ;i Vankco girl, and wrote to Iiih wife: "Dear Nora, tlio.so melancholy lilies uro to inform you that J died yesterday, and hopo you aro enjoying ilio same i>lossing. 1 l'ecommend you to marry Jerry O'Kouke, and tako caro ol tlio i.'...-.... i it JIWI V/IJ, i turn juui husband till death. , ... ??? <2> A newspaper is a window through which nioii look out on all that is go~ iug on in the world?without a news paper a man is shut in a small room and knows little or nothing of what is going 011 outside of himself. In our day a the newspapers keop paco with histor ' and record it. A nowspapor will keep a sensible man in sympathy with the world's current history. It is an enfolding cyclopc* l 1 ...11. i r ma; an iiiid- uim ddok loruvur isstliu / o nud ncvor fmitihod. ., ? ? * An Iowa, judgo has decided that it itj moro of ft Bin to Bteil a hoi'oe than to elojm with {inothor mnu'g wito ljocaiiao ihero nro 8,000,00) \y? men in tho lrnitcd Status und only J,UU0,000 iiO ovJii. Mannerism of tlio PulpitWo onco heard a distinguished pulpit orator say, in an ordination #!.?? ?1.~ 1 - ? > o(j( 111v711% liiivt inu jn't'Muucrs were ino most affected cljis-s of public spcukorn in this country. Wo did not like to hear it, hut wo ate very much afraid that it i:i true. | At si 11 i-venta, it has been our f-.?r> tuno to hoar a good deal of what ukc<1 to ho called "atunip speaking," ami j uc liuvo heard no liltlo speaking at tlio bar, t<.? ray nothing of wliat we have heard in our legislative b;>?!iefl State, Federal and Confederate; ami wo u^-e very fuic thai the least natural and the moat artificial speaking t Imf ..r> !.?% ? ? -.1) l._~ t MKii w v/ im>v; Ji\_*di vt at till, liUrt IR'UIl from preachers. Tiio "holy tone*,5' tho "sacicd whine," tho "ccdastical drawl," aro all thoroughly familiar to our long suffering cars. It ia a mistake to suppose that those nilcctioiis and artificialities arc confined to anv narticulur pent, or t.> any particular class of preachers. Wo h.vvo beared Vlethwdists mean, Hap? tisla whine, Episcopalians intone, and Presbyterians drawl. Indeed, the capacity for uttering unnatural sounds from the pulpit seems to be possessed by the educated as well as the uneducated preachers; and ono of tho latest sensation?, in llic denomination which, among us, can claim the highest culture and refinement, is to hear tho officiating clergyman I whine tho servico in a tone compared with which tho "holy tone" ot the Hard Shell Baptist is positively mef odious. Of course there are reasons tor this affection, all probably nioro or less connected with tlio innate weakness ot humanity. Wo sometimes wonder why it is that these preachers never ask themselves this simple question: "Why don't folks *-.? to sleep when I talk to them as they always do when I preach to them?" The proper answer to this query ought to awaken a prcnclier to some things that it would bo well for him to get rid of. Now, just think of it; l>iothor J)ra\vlur, who always puta Brother Drowsy to tleep during the lirst five minutes of the sermon, eat) meet him in the street, or at hia house, and lull; l>?r an hour 011 wheat, tobacco, guano, shi|i6luU', assafcolida, or coon^ skins and Brut her Drowsy will not ' nod unci I Why is it, then, that when tho most important of all subjects occupying the preacher, I>rotlicr Drowsy is sure to sleep? Wo must say that tiie moat probable reason is, that Brother Drawlor has contrived, by I hid unnatural mannerisms in the management < t his subject, or in the style el' his delivery, to kill all tlui interest which the subject naturally [)OS3C8SOSJ. Thero id probably oven more man* neiism in our 6cr:i:onizing than in our sfvlo of tlulivory. Wo have u;ot w t ? i if.u.- into which every sermon i.s : i > ho iiiouhlcJ. Wo mu st havu cur [''introtlucii )ii," as if the su!?jeet of roligion was a s< ranger, and ncoilotl to bo introduced to ilie ]>C"])!o of :i Christian congregation. 'J ho wo can hardly ^vt along without our ''llrstly" (hv tho way, i.? this an English word?) and our "tecondly," e!e, sometimes running up to "fifthly;" and not uufrcqncntlv each one of those divisions rejoices in quite an array ofsubdvieions, so that sometimes tho sermon | id cut up into an many pieces as a J ^ i v II mil UOO III \j OUI "* moil is meant to ho a demonstrative arguniont, (which it hardly ever ought lo ho,) wo aeo no good end t<> bo attained by the public announce incut ol those multitudinous division. . If the preacher needs llicin, in order j to assist his memory, there may ho no n|>cei:i! objection to* bis putting thorn Jown in his noli-; though, oven fur this purpose, it might he as well to iice ilitiu tjpiin'in^jl}', atul tt not more to memory itaelf. Then, how many eormons have all tlio lifo squeezed out of them by pil mg heavy weights of "propriety" 11 i>s on them. Now, propriety is a good tiling in its place; but wo nro 6adlv impressed with tho belief, that many preachers continually sacrifice inter* est and el'oct to a false notion ot propriety. We wish very much thai wo could see a more direct homely, familiar, conversational style cuN tivuled by our preachers. II thoy will iusibt unnn i.rm>?!ntv i I I' * " V ? 11:on wo f 11?>u 1?1 iikt- to see ihom im* pi cased willi tliu idoii, 'hilt it is n rerv serious violation < t propiio'y to put (lio people to sleep. If your licarora are not awake, it matters not how much nro .rirtv von mnv I.-nr.. I ' J J J u in your sermon, il will do no pood. A preachcr had hotter vi .lute cvon iho piojn ioiios f ordinary grammar, and keep tlio uudietioo awake and listening to important truth, than to speak with the propriety of ii liuiko and put his heaters to bleep. l>y tho way, it is a*noUiriou8 (act, that Burko himsoll, with all his proprioty, usod to speak in put liment lo empty bunch t)s. 11 is speeches, which, in their printed form, we all admire as such models of parliamentary eloquence, seemed to produce the ell'cct ot send iug his milliters out of tho house beI'oio ho had been speaking halt an hour. They lacked incVum. Tho sentences were rounded, not pointed* Wo honestly believe, that if a sensible, tolerably educated man would take an important passage of Script* lire, study it carefully in ita connection, cither with the aid of the beet excgctical words, or without any reference to anything that has ever been said or written about it before 1 and then c< mo before the ',>eoi>le. and tell them honestly and naturally what ttic passage means, illustrating and enforcing its meaning by real and familiar incidents, thu result would bo refreshingly interesting, and, in most churchos, entirely novel. ? Wasiiinoton, Jan. 17.?The Cons tennial bill is said to be gaining ground rapidly. Several prominent Southern men tako a decided stand tor it, among mem Senator Uordou of Georgia, ile agrees with Sonator Bayard^that it is both constitutional and sanctioned by numberless precedents. Ile is heard to havo expressed himself very freely, and is earn nostly for the bill on the following grounds: i 'in...# i --- > x. xuiu iiu Dvvuuii i3 nu uuepiy in-* torcstod in the proper colebration o* the re-ofltablislwnont of tho principlcfl of 177(5, and in tho restoration of good will into tho country as tho South. 2. That the proposed nppiopriation would cost only about 3} ccnts per capita in the United States. 3. That Ponnyslvania has paid 4} millions of tlio live millions already expended, and that, it would bo unjn.i to make that State pay inoro, wheroas tho appropriation by Congress would perfect the National character of tho celebration. I. That foreign nations, having accepted tho invitation to coino, tho reputation of the government is invols ved in perfecting tho arrangements, .... i ... i.: i. i.i * tllKI (Ml lllirj iC (.'Ull II 1/ IIU ? Utllll 11I'lJ 0 to ace I In; South voto against it. A Portland man, caught fishing for trout <>n another man's land the other day, completely silenced tho owner who remonstrated wiih the majestic answer, 4>\Vho wants to catch your ,9 i ..... .... I.. .. ? i 11 >J HI* i. .1111 unijr ll>,ura UI'UWll tliis worm." 4 <?Ar? Tho contruotois on tho Spartanburg ami Ashovillo Kniliond arc at work v/e.st ol tiio Hlili* II id</o. in ILiMiilorson Q ' county, and :in additional forco of convicts is* onga^od on tho l'olk county Hoction. A uiiin'u crodit nniHt be bud, indeed, when lie can't borrow trouble.